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Recent Examples of unabsorbed
Bacterial Imbalances Iron supplements, especially unabsorbed iron, can change the balance of bacteria in your gut.
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Emmanuella Ogbonna, Health, 31 Oct. 2025
The blood-red remnant seen on cloth is visible due to the leftover light wavelengths that remain unabsorbed by the condiment’s chemical composition.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
Orlistat can cause digestive problems because unabsorbed fat passes into and lingers in the colon.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The company reported a net income of $95 million for the quarter, compared to $58 million in the previous year, with the increase attributed to higher volumes and lower unabsorbed costs.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
University of Vienna's Lukas Kenner theorizes that clumps of concentrated, unabsorbed antibiotics attached to the surface of nanoplastics could provide the perfect breeding ground for bacteria to become resistant to the medication.
—Joe Salas, New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2024
Supplements provide high doses of magnesium at one time, which can lead to excessive unabsorbed magnesium.
—Elizabeth Barnes, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2024
The authors are developing technology that can convert some of those unabsorbed wavelengths into colors close to silicon’s sweet spot.
—Tracy H. Schloemer, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2023
Emmanuella Ogbonna, Health, 31 Oct. 2025
The blood-red remnant seen on cloth is visible due to the leftover light wavelengths that remain unabsorbed by the condiment’s chemical composition.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
Orlistat can cause digestive problems because unabsorbed fat passes into and lingers in the colon.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The company reported a net income of $95 million for the quarter, compared to $58 million in the previous year, with the increase attributed to higher volumes and lower unabsorbed costs.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
University of Vienna's Lukas Kenner theorizes that clumps of concentrated, unabsorbed antibiotics attached to the surface of nanoplastics could provide the perfect breeding ground for bacteria to become resistant to the medication.
—Joe Salas, New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2024
Supplements provide high doses of magnesium at one time, which can lead to excessive unabsorbed magnesium.
—Elizabeth Barnes, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2024
The authors are developing technology that can convert some of those unabsorbed wavelengths into colors close to silicon’s sweet spot.
—Tracy H. Schloemer, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unabsorbed
Adjective
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Due to Tom’s disappearance, Claflin is largely absent outside of flashbacks that show the couple’s meet-cute in Jordan, where Alice was digging for artifacts and Tom distributed vaccines for a pro-refugee NGO called SOS Global.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
1 Feb. 2026
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Scientists agree that, absent intervention, Thwaites’s retreat will accelerate within the next century and the glacier will eventually collapse.—
Christian Elliott,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Once solar time in Greenwich had been carried, night and day, around the spinning globe, time became highly abstracted, cut away from its animal home so as to be more easily figured both geologically and evolutionarily.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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The invaluable bond between artist and muse is exemplified by their abstracted slumbering embrace, her nude form dominating our gaze as her rosy flesh juxtaposes with the jade-sage background.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The feeling was unfamiliar, since my usual mental coordinates place me somewhere in the proximate future, a locus of anticipation and, all too often, unfocused worry.—
Michael Pollan,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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The Giants will continue to count on defensive improvement from Heliot Ramos, who was an unfocused mess in left field last year — a goal that is more attainable now that a premium center fielder will be flanking Ramos to his left.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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His quest to reclaim the power of writing becomes an inner journey between memory and forgetting, between a lost language and a new one, where human, emotion and meaning must be recreated anew.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2026
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Friday May 22, will not be a school day, the district said in a social media post, to make up for the lost instructional time.—
Carol Taylor,
Dallas Morning News,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Emma was oblivious to the cars, the don’t-walk signs, even the cold on this windy, 34-degree afternoon.—
Maeva Bambuck,
CNN Money,
1 Feb. 2026
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As Kelly belted out the chorus, the oblivious driver made easy conversation about his lunch plans, calling in a hibachi order mid-ride.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Investigators found many of the crashes involved inattentive drivers, some of whom appeared to mistakenly assume the driver-assistance technology functioned as fully autonomous driving.—
Martina Di Licosa,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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The Kodiak Driver achieved perfect scores of 100 in inattentive driving, high-risk driving and traffic violations.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The little boy went to school but was absent-minded, always hunched over books and filling the pages with endless drawings.—
Elena Banfi,
Vanity Fair,
19 Jan. 2026
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Travelers are becoming more absent-minded, and experts are struggling to understand why.—
Wilson Santiago Burgos,
USA Today,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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An out of shape owl emerged, followed by jealous girlfriend owl and the ADHD-riddled owl, who is far too distracted to hoot.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The annual report focused on seat belt usage, impaired driving, driving distracted, speeding, motorcycle driving and young drivers.—
Brian Sherrod,
CBS News,
30 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Unabsorbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unabsorbed. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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